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Lots? A

Apart from a couple of us on here this one deserves to be better known as does its next door neighbour (nearly) here. The first is a really exciting manifestation of the 'rumblings' going on in the 50s and 60s at the hands of Downes etc. though using (good) older pipework by a builder who was just a bit of a maveric encouraged by an incumbent who also played the organ. The second is one of the neatest solutions I have come across. The seemingly rather odd the spec. works amazingly and the 4 composition pedals are set up to facilitate this. A study in the art of registration combining hand and pedal. Check out here for more on the second organ. A

Watch it with this bit - Prof. Thomas Murray doesn't think he was related - I had better check where I got it from! A

'Just had a post through on another forum to say that apparently three organ builders from the South Island Organ Company are/were trapped in the ruins of a Methodist Church - three others got out. A

Thanks! A

I am about to start some research into the life and work of Richard Keys Biggs the American organist and composer - father of the composer John Biggs. If anyone has any info. that they wouldn't mind sharing then please PM me. Thanks A

It has been overhauled but as far as I know the voicing was left alone - I know wht you mean though - I recently revisited an instrument after a couple of decades an it sounded nothing like I remember it to have sounded. I think it's our age! A

Harriet Gedge was daughter of David and Hazel Gedge. A

On the subject of the Gloucester console - can anyone tell me why in pictures at least it looks as if an extra key cheek has been added at the treble end? A

I really like this one too - so why did the Metzler in St. Mary's Oxford sound distictly 'lumpy' when I visited a few years ago I wonder? I was really unimpressed. Has anyone had more first hand experience? A

...or to shoot a lurking flower 'monitor' or meddlesome verger! A

Thanks for this! A

Weirdly creepy - pipes that move! A

There is a church near here with a digital that sounds like this! A

Off topic - but maybe not - I have often wondered how things work here with a relatively small organ in a very large church - there is the thought of a single note on a quiet 8' having the presence of something quite big elsewhere etc. What happens with a full congregation and if they are doing Howells etc.? (It would be nice to go and hear - we used to live nearer - but are unlikely to get there in the forseeable future.) A

I have not tried asking much over here recently but on trips to France I have always been made welcome even at fairly important venues. A

Here - once you are in you are pretty nearly stuck! A

Interesting this - I went to a 'meet' there a long while back ('can't remember which lot with) and we had a demonstration of the Exeter College organ. Someone from Walkers also came and talked about its genesis - I seem to remember him being quite forthright and almost defensive about the ideas behind it - 'not sure why as (for a change maybe) no one there was arguing. I also remember the sound being decidedly brash and not much like the C-C sound that it was vaguely in the style of - or at least the C-Cs I have heard. I found it lacking also in the 'awe and wonder' one might have hoped to expect with an especially rampant 16' reed somewhere behind the outer pedal display pipes. However - I have a recording of the Durufle Requiem recorded there and on this it sounds fine - likewise a CD of organ and choral music by Philip Wilby uses this venue and on this too the organ comes over well. A

I see Blackburn Cathedral music is up for grabs - the present incumbent seemingly bound for Greenwich!

I really do like the Aubertin at St John's Oxford - but am also looking forward to the new Tickell at Keble. The Frobenius at Queen's is in a class of it's own! A

'Far too tempting!! A

Thanks! A

Does anyone have a copy and if so where is it published please? - I would like to get hold of a copy and would not like to go for completely the wrong piece! Thanks A

'Superb Clarinette and some nice strings later! The layout is also quite neat with the two swell boxes in the outer towers. A